International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)

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International Federation of Engineering Education
Societies (IFEES)

• 2008-2012 Strategic Plan
• Approved
• October 01, 2007
• (_at_ Istanbul General Assembly meeting)

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Motivation

• How can education in Science and Technology help
  to reduce poverty, to boost socio-economic
  development and to take the right decisions for a
  sustainable and environmentally compatible
  development ?
• Claudio Borri
• President of IFEES

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IFEES By-Laws

• The aim of IFEES is to promote engineering
  education globally, to enhance its quality by
  bringing together members from engineering
  education societies around the world to share
  teaching methods, curriculum plans, and every
  other aspect of educating engineers, and to
  include those organizations from developing
  countries.
• Issues that IFEES will address include
• upcoming trends/teaching trends in engineering
  technology
• sharing of best practices in engineering
  education
• international collaboration and multiple
  stakeholders interaction
• shortages (and surpluses) in the professional
  fields of engineering
• curriculum challenges faced by each
  region/country
• challenges faced by engineering graduates
  educated in a country different from their
  country of employment
• encouragement of continuing engineering education
  
• The Federation will work in close cooperation
  with national and regional organizations from
  around the globe.

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IFEES is bornOctober 9th 2006in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
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Who can belong to IFEES?

• Engineering Education Organizations (EEOs)
• national and international membership
  organizations having a broad base of engineering
  faculty and/or engineering education institutions
  as members, and whose main goal is the
  improvement and support of engineering education.
• Special Interest Organizations
• organizations which actively promote engineering
  education in a more limited manner than EEOs,
  either focusing on specific topics (e.g.
  engineering ethics, engineering
  discipline-specific organizations) or carrying
  out specific activities (e.g. meetings) or
  without a broad membership base or engineering
  student organizations
• Industrial Organizations
• organizations and companies with an expressed
  interest in the promotion and/or provision of
  engineering education and training for their
  staff
• Professional Engineering Organizations
• other than EEOs, to include regional federations
  and foundations
• Government Entities
• open to governmental and quasi-governmental
  organizations which support and/or are interested
  in engineering education and training.

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Current members
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Strategic Plan Overview
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Preamble

• The founding President of IFEES, Claudio Borri,
  opened the First IFEES General Assembly on
  October 9, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by
  challenging its members to try to answer the
  question
• How can education in Science and Technology help
  to reduce poverty, to boost socio-economic
  development and to make the right decisions for a
  sustainable and environmentally compatible
  development?
• This question became the cornerstone of this
  first strategic plan and helped delineate the
  core values of IFEES

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IFEES Core Values

• Promoting engineering education excellence
  globally
• Supporting IFEES member excellence
• Caring about our communities and our environment
• Promoting culture of community building and
  strong collaboration among members and other
  appropriate stake holders
• Fostering cultural awareness and diversity among
  its stakeholders
• Cultivating integrity, honesty, work ethics, and
  social responsibility in the engineering
  profession
• Promoting capacity building and contributing to
  the socio-economic development of lesser
  developed communities
• Acting with integrity, transparency and respect
  in dealing with members and non-members

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Preamble

• IFEES will work in close cooperation with
  national regional organizations from around the
  globe to influence public policy at the local,
  national and international levels in support of
  engineering education, while striving for
  operational excellence (including IFEES
  sustainability) and development of its members.

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Strategic Plan Overview approved by IFEES Gen
Assembly, October 1, 2007 in Istanbul
Action Areas
Area 1 Engineering Education Infrastructure
Mission Provide a global network to leverage
the collective resources of members in fulfilling
their individual missions by identifying,
discussing and advancing common objectives of the
EE community.
Vision To foster and enhance the capabilities of
an active global community of stakeholders
empowered to advance engineering education (EE)
worldwide.
Area 2 RD and Entrepreneurship
Area 3 Student Attraction and Success
Area 4 Lifelong Learning
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IFEES Activities

• Indu-US Collaboration for Engineering Education
  (IUCEE)
• Leaders of engineering education, engineering
  businesses from India and the US, government
  representatives and World Bank colleagues plan
  for collaboration.
• Forums
• June 3-5 in Mysore, India
• September 29-31, 2007 in Washington, DC
• Financial support received to continue
  collaboration

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Motivation With the backdrop of globalization and
rapid technological advancements, there is
heightened expectation on engineering colleges to
help respective economies to grow and sustain
societies. An international forum would be useful
to discuss the varied challenges and
opportunities faced by engineering colleges
around the world and to network and
forge collaborations among the colleges. Based
on the inputs from ASEE Deans, Turkish Deans,
ASEAN Deans so far
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IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit Sept
30th Istanbul

• Co-located with ASEEs Global Colloquium
• Theme From Planning to Action
• Speakers
• Bruno LaPorte, World Bank Institute
• Van der Vliet Upton, European Commission
• Giuliano Augusti, Former SEFI President, EUR-ACE
  Project Coordinator, and ENAEE President
• Yuri Petrovich Pokholkov, President of Russian
  Association of Engineering Education
• Prof. Hasan Mandal, Chair of MDK (Turkish
  Engineering Deans Council)
• Seeram Ramakrishna, Dean of Engineering, National
  University of Singapore
• Student leaders and corporate representatives

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Initiatives/projects
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Award Winning Engineering Curricula for a
Globalized World Planning Grant Proposal for
Workshops and World Tour

• The US National Academy of Engineering Bernard M.
  Gordon Prize
• Inaugurated in 2001, the intent of the Gordon
  Prize is to recognize new modalities and
  experiments in education that develop effective
  engineering leaders. The focus is on innovations
  such as curricular design, teaching methods, and
  technology-enabled learning that strengthen
  students' capabilities and desire to grow into
  leadership roles.
• Goals
• Leverage the experience of the innovators
  recognized by the National Academy of
  Engineerings Bernard M. Gordon Prize to develop
  a plan for global impact and dissemination.
• We will gather information on engineering
  educational models that have produced documented
  results and examine how these models could be
  transported to other environments on a global
  scale.
• Strategy
• An interactive planning team will be assembled
  that will have at its core the recipients of the
  Gordon Prize. International partners will be
  added as the process develops.
• Proposal submitted to NSF EERC and other possible
  funding resources.

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Area 1 Engineering Education Infrastructure
Examples of Current and Possible Initiatives (in
order of priority)

• Create a Global Engineering Deans Council (Lead
  Seeram Ramakrishna)
• Provide a forum for exchange of information and
  discussion of experiences, challenges and best
  practices in leading an engineering school
• Provide a means for engineering deans to partner
  in innovation, and collaborate with industry and
  other stakeholders
• Build a network that would support engineering
  deans to play a leadership role in developing
  regional and national policy to advance economies

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Area 1 Engineering Education Infrastructure
Examples of Possible Initiatives (in order of
priority)

• Promote globally recognized Accreditation (Lead
  Iring Wasser (AIIIN)
• Encourage INQAAHE (Association of International
  Recognized Accrediting Agency) to become a member
  of IFEES
• Collaborate to assist regions and nations develop
  or enhance quality assurance/accreditation
  mechanisms for engineering education that would
  be internationally recognized.
• Create an Institute for Global Engineering
  Education Innovation and Reform engaging all
  stakeholders (Lead Hulas King, Maria Larrondo)
• Create Virtual Forums/Workshops that would foster
  global engineering leadership and disseminate
  best practices in engineering education pedagogy
• Seek funding to define and facilitate forming
  Engineers who are locally pertinent and globally
  competent
• Document what is being done and assess its
  effectiveness using an instrument
• Develop a Quantitative Model of Assessing the
  Degree Readiness of Engineering
  Students/Professionals for Global Practice
• Develop a portal accessible through the IFEES web
  pages that identifies/links resources that
  facilitate forming the engineer who can function
  globally
• Develop sample curricula used to form engineers
  who can practice globally
• Promote innovative pedagogy to engage and teach
  engineering to the 21st century student and train
  professors in these techniques

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Area 2 RD and Entrepreneurship Examples of
Possible Initiatives

• Promote integration of research experiences
  across the engineering education pipeline
  (undergraduate to post-graduate) (LeadTBA)
• Expand IFEES web pages include notifications of
  global opportunities for academic, industry,
  national labs and other internships, post-docs,
  research assistantships, faculty positions and
  research positions
• Encourage Science Technology agencies to create
  global research opportunities that promote
  academic and industry research partnerships
• Promote entrepreneurship and technology transfer
  (LeadTBA)
• Promote excellence through creation/enhancement
  of PhD programs (LeadTBA)
• Develop local programs, collaborative/joint
  degrees

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Area 3 Student Attraction and SuccessExamples
of Possible Initiatives

• Increase visibility and appeal of engineering as
  a profession (Lead TBA)
• Identify cultural barriers and social variables
• Improve retention (LeadTBA)
• Increase participation of women and
  underrepresented populations (LeadTBA)
• Sharing successful Science and Engineering
  pipeline development experiences
• Promoting participation of women and
  underrepresented populations in IFEES
  activities, and
• Collaborating with the national and international
  academies Engineering attractiveness projects
• Promote student mobility worldwide (LeadPamela
  Ruiz (IAESTES)
• Promote alliances of innovation networks for
  student mobility
• Promote Dual or Joint Degrees (LeadTBA)
• Promote the Globalization of Erasmus Mundus

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Area 4 Lifelong LearningExamples of Possible
Initiatives

• Promote continuing education opportunities for
  engineers (LeadTBA)
• Leverage existing lifelong learning professional
  activities among stakeholders
• Collaborate with International Association for
  Continuing Engineering Education
• Facilitate academic-industry-government interface
  for engineering education (LeadTBA)
• Promote engagement of students
• Develop and promote continuing and sustainable
  engineering education in developing countries
  (LeadTBA)
• Develop/enhance e-learning (LeadTBA)

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Expectations of Project/Initiative Leaders

• Own the project
• Request approval of IFEES endorsement (process
  TBD by EC)
• Invite experts/others to join
• Establish metrics to evaluate outcomes
• Find resources for implementation
• Assess and evaluate outcomes of initiative
• Share initiatives outcomes with IFEES Executive
  Board/General Assembly

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Process for obtaining IFEES endorsement of
members initiatives

• Initiatives to be endorsed by IFEES will be
  placed under the appropriate area and
  prioritized. Proposals need to include the
  following information and follow this process
• Request IFEES approval by writing to the IFEES
  Secretariat
• Proposal should be 1-2 pages long with the
  following information
• Title
• Initiative Leaders
• Brief Description
• Objectives
• Metrics and outcome assessment
• Timetable
• Strategic resources and partners
• Budget and identification of sources of funds
• IFEES Secretariat will forward proposal to the
  President and the Executive Committee ExCo) for
  approval (with deadline for approval)
• Proposal taken as accepted unless theres a
  majority of ExCo members who respond with
  opposition
• Proponents agree to
• Share UR/project info with IFEES (URL links,
  regular updates, etc.)
• Share outcomes with IFEES ExCo and General
  Assembly

proposal
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Short-term Actions